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ClayTheScribe · 07-21-2009, 02:08 PM

I got fired from my job today for being late one too many times. It wasn't even a difficult or demanding job. I'm just having a hard time forgiving myself and letting go of my resentment toward myself, no less feeling I can believe in myself again. Does anyone have any suggestions for what I should do? I just feel so down on myself, that I don't deserve happiness or another job.

suki44883 · 07-21-2009, 02:22 PM

Accept that you screwed up. Learn from it and move on. You don't have to let this stop you from moving forward.

**Astro** · 07-21-2009, 02:26 PM

I learn from my mistakes Clay, it inspires me to do the next right thing and keep my side of the street clean. The past is the past, I can't change it, but I can change my behavior in the future.

otterbearcat · 07-21-2009, 06:52 PM

Hi Clay,

I was fired from a job a few years ago for pretty much the same issue.
I hated the job and I hated myself.
I was also depressed and have just recently began to do something about that.

I would say think about what you can do different in the future which is something that you do have control over. Whats happened has happened.

Look forward.

07-21-2009, 02:08 PM	#1 (permalink)
ClayTheScribe Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Colorado Posts: 616 Blog Entries: 1	Forgiving myself I got fired from my job today for being late one too many times. It wasn't even a difficult or demanding job. I'm just having a hard time forgiving myself and letting go of my resentment toward myself, no less feeling I can believe in myself again. Does anyone have any suggestions for what I should do? I just feel so down on myself, that I don't deserve happiness or another job. __________________ “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." -Ray Bradbury

07-21-2009, 02:22 PM	#2 (permalink)
suki44883 Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Somewhere Out There Posts: 9,090	Accept that you screwed up. Learn from it and move on. You don't have to let this stop you from moving forward. __________________ We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. - Anna Sewell - So oftentimes it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key. - The Eagles

07-21-2009, 02:26 PM	#3 (permalink)
Astro Forum Leader Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Scottsdale, AZ, one big happy dysfunctional family! Posts: 11,833	I learn from my mistakes Clay, it inspires me to do the next right thing and keep my side of the street clean. The past is the past, I can't change it, but I can change my behavior in the future. __________________ "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty, and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming---WOW-What a ride!"

07-21-2009, 06:52 PM	#4 (permalink)
otterbearcat On the path to self discovery Join Date: May 2009 Location: Pacific Northwest Posts: 161 Blog Entries: 16	Hi Clay, I was fired from a job a few years ago for pretty much the same issue. I hated the job and I hated myself. I was also depressed and have just recently began to do something about that. I would say think about what you can do different in the future which is something that you do have control over. Whats happened has happened. Look forward. __________________ Wherever you go, there you are

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